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Box Office Results: 5/17-19

  1. Star Trek: Into Darkness - $70.2M
  2. Iron Man 3 - $35.8M
  3. The Great Gatsby - $23.9M
  4. Pain & Gain - $3.2M
  5. The Croods - $3M
  6. 42 - $2.8M
  7. Oblivion - $2.3M
  8. Mud - $2.2M
  9. Tyler Perry Presents Peeples - $2.2M
  10. The Big Wedding - $1.2M

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Redford Swept Away in Shipwreck Saga 'All is Lost'

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Associated Press | May 24, 2013

CANNES, France - Robert Redford makes actions speak louder than words in shipwreck drama "All Is Lost." He doesn't have much choice. A man-versus-nature tale about a lone sailor adrift on the Indian Ocean, J.C. Chandor's movie has no dialogue, just a few lines of voiceover at the start and a couple of heartfelt expletives. Redford said he was excited by "the challenge of being solitary, alone, without having the crutch of words." The second feature from "Margin Call" director Chandor, "All Is Lost" is screening out of competition at Cannes, where both it and 76-year-old screen icon Redford got a warm reception Wednesday. The Independen... more

Douglas, Damon Dramatize a Steamy Showbiz Affair

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Associated Press | May 24, 2013

NEW YORK - The idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself. Liberace, forever hailed as Mr. Showmanship, was the excess-to-the-max pianist-personality whose onstage and offstage extravagance were legendary and who wowed audiences in Las Vegas and worldwide to become the best-paid entertainer on the planet during his heyday from the 1950s to the 1970s. He was the forerunner of flashy, gender-bender entertainers like Elton John, David Bowie, Madonna and Lady Gaga even as he kept a tight lid on his gay private life, which he feared could have ended his career had it come out. (His fans never ... more

Toback, Baldwin Eye Cannes Movie-Making Underbelly

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Associated Press | May 24, 2013

CANNES, France - A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers." The commercial underbelly of the Cannes Film Festival is a nonstop frenzy of deal-making in luxury hotels along the Croisette promenade and aboard yachts moored offshore. Films are pitched with various ingredients - a director, a script, a few stars - as agents and talent pursue international investors and domestic distributors to bankroll their movies. For director James Toback, any claims about the running of "the numbers" - of treating moviemaking as an analytical science - is blatant "pseudo research." "This is where you really need, desperately, a... more

Depardieu Defiant About Chechnya Film Project

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Deutsche Presse-Agentur | May 22, 2013

Grozny (dpa) - French-born actor Gerard Depardieu on Tuesday defended his decision to shoot a gangster film in Russia's Caucasus region of Chechnya. "I followed everything that happened here and saw a city totally rebuilt and very sympathetic people," Depardieu said at a press conference in the regional capital, Grozny, which was reduced to rubble during two wars beginning in 1994. The actor, who accepted a Russian passport from President Vladimir Putin in January after saying he would leave France to protest a planned 75-per-cent income tax, has been widely criticized for keeping warm relations with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, whom c... more

Steven Soderbergh Talks Quitting Movies

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Associated Press | May 22, 2013

NEW YORK - Steven Soderbergh is working on a new currency. In his Chelsea studio, among various film posters and piles of moviemaking mementos, he has a few paintings in progress, including a new, livelier, "more Hendrix" version of a U.S. dollar bill. It's only one of the many artistic endeavors he bounces between now that he's begun his long-predicted hiatus from filmmaking. On Tuesday, he will bring his Liberace film, "Behind the Candelabra," to the Cannes Film Festival, where it will compete for the same Palme d'Or he won 24 years ago for his first film, "Sex, Lies and Videotape." Soderbergh has said this - a $23 million HBO movie s... more

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